Osborn accuses Sasse of being a Washington insider funded by Washington (AUDIO)

Former state Treasurer Shane Osborn has turned up the heat in the Republican primary for United States Senate, accusing Ben Sasse of being a Washington insider whose campaign is funded by Washington, D.C. special interests.

Osborn claims the experience of Midland University President Ben Sasse is that of a Washington bureaucrat.

“He spent nearly a decade out there and I’ve been back in Nebraska. The only time I have spent outside Nebraska was wearing this nation’s uniform in the United States Navy,” Osborn tells Nebraska Radio Network. “And I think that’s a big contrast. I don’t think sending a bureaucrat back to Washington, D.C. is the solution.”

Sasse is no bureaucrat according to his Campaign Manager, Tyler Grassmeyer, who points out Sasse served in the Bush Administration.

“He served his country for four years in Washington, D.C.,” Grassmeyer tells Nebraska Radio Network. “I don’t know about you, but when I do my math, four years is not even close to a decade, not even nearly a decade.”

The Osborn camp also counts another three years when Sasse went to school in Washington.

Osborn has been critical how the Sasse campaign has been funded. Sasse has used his connections made during his time working in the George W. Bush administration to raise money for his Senate race.